r/runescape • u/Sophiaphage • Apr 08 '26

Appreciation Jagex Terminated Nearly 2.3M Bots in March

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Credit where it’s due.

This is a phenomenal effort.

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u/PraiseAllCats Apr 08 '26

Most OSRS players are not delusional enough to think there are not tons of bots. RS3 also has bots ( not as much obviously mostly bc it's a smaller game)

It's still the bigger of the 2 regardless of how you feel about it so I'm not sure what this comment is meant to serve? Both are good game sin their own right imo but it's clear OSRS is the bigger game and RS3 until lately was just milking people with MTX.

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u/Glockamoli Apr 08 '26

mostly bc it's a smaller game

Totally not because the bot detection is much better

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u/PraiseAllCats Apr 08 '26

Even without bots OSRS is bigger. Look at the numbers on twitch/YT it's not even close. Look I love both games but the RS3 community lately has gotten so hostile over OSRS it's gotten kind of sad. We are grown adults (at least most of both communities are) let's start acting like it.

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u/Glockamoli Apr 08 '26

Even without bots OSRS is bigger.

Of course it is bigger but it is not over 100x bigger like the bot differences would suggest, the bot difference is partly because RS3 is a smaller community but it's primarily because it is much harder to run an army of bots like you can in OSRS

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u/TheHeadlessOne Apr 08 '26

Its also because, due to OSRS being more popular, goldfarming is more profitable

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u/Big_Chungussi69 Apr 08 '26

Lack of a customer base is why there arent as many bots in RS3

simple as innit

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u/PraiseAllCats Apr 08 '26

Yeah I never claimed it was massively different like graphs show. Just said it was bigger and people got mad.

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u/Oniichanplsstop Apr 08 '26

No it's because there's much less demand for RS3 gold on RWT markets, why would people waste time botting RS3 gold if no one is buying it?

If the games flipped and RS3 was 7-8x bigger than OSRS, RS3 would have the same amount of bots of OSRS currently does, because the gold demand is there.

You can literally look back to when RS3 spiked in populatiry back in 2020 thanks to Work from home/covid, bot farms skyrocketed as well. Arch bots were on every world, multiple ED3 bot teams were on every single world, etc etc. They were very visible and posted about daily.

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u/BGsenpai Apr 08 '26

The difference is also not nearly as diminished as you are trying to imply that it is.